Health and Healthcare Policy in Italy since 1861

Francesco Taroni is Professor of legal and social medicine at the University of Bologna in Italy. Previously, he has held managerial positions at a national and regional level. Internationally, he is Visiting Research Scientist at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College’s Asano-Gonnella Center for Research in Medical Education and Health Care, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA, and has consulted for the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Francesco has published extensively on healthcare research and his most recent books include Politiche Sanitarie in Italia (Health Policies in Italy, 2011) and Il Volo del Calabrone: 40 Anni di Servizio Sanitario Nazionale (The Flight of the Bumblebee: 40 years of National Health Service, 2019).

• Chapter 1. Health in the making of a Nation.- Chapter 2. Health and healthcare in the liberal State.- Chapter 3. The Great War and the Spanish Flu.- Chapter 4. Health under the Fascist State.- Chapter 5. Postwar: roads not taken.- Chapter 6. The rise and fall of the mutual jungle.- Chapter 7. The creation of the Servizio sanitario nazionale.- Chapter 8. Reinventing the SSN?.- Chapter 9. New issues at the dawn of the Twenty-first Century. Chapter 10. A Lost Decade.- Chapter 11. Two Converging Crises.- Chapter 12. Postscript./